On 5/22/12 11:11 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 5/21/12 6:31 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 03:22:28PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> >>> So I'm pretty sure this patch is what we want, and rw_verify_area() >>> really is required to protect low-level filesystems from these kinds >>> of issues. Not just ext4. >>> >>> At the same time, I would *really* want somebody who actually uses >>> anything AIO to test it out too. Because I want to not only commit it, >>> but also mark it for stable - and it would be nice to have some more >>> testing than me saying "ok, it passes the one test-case sent to me" >>> and "hey, the code looks sane". > > Just FWIW, the ext4_file_write() part of this fix was sent by Zheng Liu on 4/12/12: > > [PATCH RESEND] ext4: change return value from int to ssize_t in ext4_file_write Sorry, I was talking about Manish's original patch, not Linus's followup. -Eric > I'll see about writing an xfstest for this stuff too so it doesn't regress again. > > -Eric > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
